Cannes 2011: live blog – day 10

All the news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Cannes film festival, as it happened

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Cheyenne gang ... Sean Penn and Eve Hewson at the Cannes film festival photocall for This Must Be The Place Photograph: Matt Baron/BEI / Rex Features Matt Baron/BEI / Rex Features/Matt Baron/BEI / Rex Features

6.31pm: Our video dream team of Henry, Xan and Laurence have produced an absorbing and revealing little piece about the remastering of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Malcolm McDowell, Jan Harlan and Christiane Kubrick discuss the making of and motivation behind the movie. McDowell talks about how the public is finally seeing the film for what it really is: a black comedy.

5.29pm: Catherine Shoard has the interesting bits from the Sean Penn press conference, including the part where he suggests Americans have gone overboard about the killing of Bin Laden. As Catherine points out, there's never been a better time to bring a film about a Nazi hunt to Cannes.

5.10pm: Peter has written up a Cannes roundup. He was not impressed by Lars von Trier at all, his film or his behaviour, and comes down in favour of The Artist among the prize contenders.

2.52pm: Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Von Trier's long-time partner in their production company Zentropa, has, Variety reports in its distinctive language, "rebuked the troublesome helmer". "We would like to make it perfectly clear that Zentropa does not share Lars von Trier's view of what might be funny to say at a press conference, and that his comments are a direct contradiction of Zentropa's values," Aalbæk Jensen said. The full report lurks behind Variety's paywall here.

2.04pm: I suppose this was inevitable. But neat. Lars Von Trier's Downfall. Not one for the kids, who I'm sure are avidly following this live blog.

1.28pm: Does anyone else think the lineup at Cannes this year has been distinguished by unmemorable film titles? This Must Be the Place, Drive, The Tree of Life, The Artist, The Skin I Live In, We Have a Pope, The Kid With a Bike (admittedly the last few in translation): none of these would have me hoofing it to the cinema, if I knew nothing else about them and when I try to talk about them I end up in a mumbling mess, talking about "the Penn film", "the Malick", "skinny Almodóvar", "bike kid" and the like. Even We Need to Talk About Kevin, which always struck me as a brilliant title for a book, becomes "talk about Kevin" or just Kevin. And I don't even try to discuss Martha Marcy May Marlene. Surely this can't be good for word of mouth. The Beaver may have its flaws, but in this regard it's streets ahead.

1.14pm: Peter Bradshaw has given Sean Penn's ridiculous new look (thankfully Penn seems to be playing it for laughs a bit) the once over and given This Must Be the Place three stars. Bradshaw has reservations about the concept of the film as a whole, especially the Holocaust material, but was enchanted by a cameo from Talking Head David Byrne. Clearly a man with good taste in music as well as infallible film judgment.

11.58am: For those who've asked (sorry, perhaps should have mentioned): we've got a review of Ryan Gosling in Drive on the way as well.

11.36am: The Cannes roundup video is here now. Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Catherine Shoard and Variety's Leslie Felperin are the panel presenting their festival highs and lows. All that wine doesn't seem to have affected their speech. I wonder if a live blogger could get away with a cheeky mid-morning bottle.

11.15am: The Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet has released this piece that tracks Von Trier's progress in the run-up Cannes and beyond that fateful press conference, including his Proust-laden camper van journey to the festival (he mustn't have sold it after all). He started out saying: "Going to Cannes… is actually a pretty bad idea."

It points out Von Trier's long relationship with, and importance to, the festival and suggests that before his trip south he was fretting about the perception that he has a too cosy relationship with Cannes. He also seems to have been unhappy about the resulting pressure the relationship was exerting, amid some anxiety that the quality of his films might be declining.

He told the paper: "Statistically speaking I must have brought with me some pretty bad films; I haven't really won anything much through all these years. Yet they invite me again and again, so much so that it is commonly believed that I have some sort of a corrupt relationship with Cannes, which means that I'm always invited back."

He adds: "If a film of mine won't be invited one year, that would have to mean that it's even worse than usual. To be fair, this spring I've been worried about them declining! And I really don't want to live that way. I want to make the films that I make – with or without Cannes."

After the press conference, he talks to the paper again, and seems to have been happy with the questions, but perhaps disappointed with his answers to them:

"It was very good and sincere with serious questions. Maybe I just steered away too far with the whole thing about the Nazis, and the point was sort of lost. That was a bit unfortunate. I was just in a good mood …"

10.46am: Laurence Topham and Henry Barnes have shot this video of delegates' reaction to the Von Trier ban. Most of them seem to think it was a mistake.

Mane man ... Sean Penn in This Must Be the Place PR

10.15am: Morning, morning. Today is a bad hair day. No, I have not mistaken you for people who care about my personal grooming. It's the day when Sean Penn's transformation into a rock star, – with the aid of one of the worst barnets in movie history, if the initial PR shots are reflective – is revealed to the world. This Must Be The Place, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is the big film of the day. It will be the subject of Peter Bradshaw's review, and hopefully we'll have some interesting quotes from the post-screening press conference to leave you stroking your chin, rather than scratching your head.

As the festival hastens towards its end, it's also a day for taking stock. So our critics emptied a bottle of rosé and discussed the festival's highs and lows. Video of that to come.

Also we've got a bumper podcast, starring Bérénice Bejo from The Artist and Cécile De France from the Dardenne brothers' Le Gamin au Velo ("kid on a bike"). I'm led to believe we should also have an interview with Stellan Skarsgard from Lars Von Trier's Melancholia, who may be able to shed some light on this week's madness. And here was me thinking this might be a Lars-free day. Some hope.

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